WOOD WIDE WEB

“A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a ‘wood wide web’ of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of information and goods.”

Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees

Marmo Gallery is pleased to present Wood Wide Web, a group exhibition featuring the works of Grace Duda, Henry Wolfe Erikson, Meli Fassbender, Mo Golden, and Lisa Mellinger.

Wood Wide Web is an exhibition exploring the networks of connection that bind forests, communities, and worlds. The exhibition showcases artists whose practices engage with the natural world as both subject and system, investigating the exchanges and communications that sustain life.

Mycorrhizal networks, vast underground systems of fungal filaments (mycelium), connect plant roots in mutualistic economies of exchange. Decentralized, resilient, and regenerative, these networks embody forms of connection that sustain forests. They offer a model for understanding how systems, whether ecological, social, or symbolic, generate cooperation, reciprocity, and resilience beyond individual organisms.

The artists in Wood Wide Web engage with these systems of connection. Across biodesign, foraged artwork, and painterly explorations of landscape, form, and ecological systems, their works trace how energy, matter, and information circulate through living and cultural networks. Nature here is not a backdrop, but an interlocutor—a system of signals, silences, and energy flows that continuously shape our shared futures.

Looking at these interwoven systems invites us to reimagine how community might become a garden of resistance, care, and collaboration—a culture of reciprocity, biodiversity, and deep relationship. Just as forests thrive through shared abundance, the works in this exhibition suggest ways of mapping the connections that bind us, offering visions of resilience, interdependence, and renewal.